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I'd love nothing more to upgrade to the latest ESXi but I was fortunate enough to be provide this licence from a friend as it would have cost in the region of £3k to purchase retail. I wasn't prepared the many years ago when I first started running it to use the free tier as I've had this 22core 44thread Xeon and wanted the gaming VM with GPU-Passthrough to have more than 8cores available to it. Back then it wasn't common place to have more than quad or 6cores but I was on the bleeding edge. I appreciated the platform is dated now and holding back my 3080ti See attached image of Win Updates showing no available updates. Alternative method of upgrade is to us in place upgrade, but this flags the TPM issue. I'll maybe have to look at how to strip out that requirement. I discovered after purchasing the tpm addon module that is shouldn't be required for vTPM, however either way option doesn't present itself. (see attached).

Hey all, I run ESXI 6.7u3 on a Asus X99-s with 128GB RAM and Xeon E5-2696 v4. It has multiple VM's and I recently upgraded one the VM's from Windows 10 to Windows 11. I've noticed I'm stuck on a particular version of Win11 as the VM isnt meeting Microsoft requirements. e.g. TPM. I purchased and installed the TPM 2.0 modual and enabled it in the BIOS. The BIOS is showing SecureBoot Enabled. However I can not get the ESXI CLI to enable SecureBoot. I can not add TPM or vTPM as they are not present as a hardware option in ESXI Host or vCentre Server. I ran: /usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -c and get the following result: All acceptance levels validated I ran /usr/lib/vmware/secureboot/bin/secureBoot.py -s yet still shows DISABLED Then other instructions say to run the following command: esxcli system settings encryption get but this also also fails as an unknown command: Error: Unknown command or namespace system settings encryption get I am fully patched up according to Update Manager. Any thoguhts?

Hey all, I was previously earning good amount of credit from a Bandwidth Sharing site called Salad.com - This was on a 100/100 leased line but it was maxing out. I have now moved my host to a 1000/1000 leased line but have put a PFSense VM on the network. New to PFSense and was looking for assistance with creating a rule that allows all traffic so nothing appears in the log as blocked by default rule. Or how would I go about creating a DMZ for the one client device to sit in with nothing else but the Salad Bandwidth Sharing App installed and not being restricted by the firewall. Is the attached Allow All Rule on the WAN sufficent?

Ok quick update. Think I'm working now. So my setup is on Windows 11 (Education) and my sign in account is using an AzureAD. I have my own Microsoft 365 tenancy to play with. Its janky but I used the local group policy - Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Windows Components --> Windows Hello for Business --> Use Windows Hello for Business (Disabled). The janky/broken bit of this is, when I reboot and present with the logon screen I can still use the existing PIN or Password option. Both work. In Accounts section of Windows Settings PIN and other Windows Hello are all greyed out. Run the SystemInternal AutoLogon app and hey presto, its now working.

Sent me down a rabbit hole now! The Pin remove option is greyed out and its you are right, I do sign in with a WIndows Hello Pin. So i'll work out the pin remove option first and circle back round to password and update you.

Searched and read similar threads but not conculsive in their responses. So I have a Windows 11 PC at home. It runs various applications that need the device to be logged in before they start. Such as HoneyGain, and Mystnode and my TV Tuner Recording software being the main one. However when my device reboots either from a crash or a windows update overnight I might not notice for several days until I sit in front of it or remote onto it. So these background services havent been running for several days each time. I just need the computer to autologon. So back in the day it was a reg key Then it was the MS AutoLogon tool Also there was the netplwiz but I dont have the required option. I assume its to do with the AzureAD account also known as the Microsoft account used when setting up windows rather than the local account. Is there any utility or app that allows me to continue with autologging in but without me being present i.e. its not an issue with Windows Hello, as its not that I'm lazy when sat in front of the device, its because the device reboots for numerous reasons and then doesnt log back in seamless when I'm away. Any suggestions? Thanks

QUICK UPDATE: Now fixed. I rebuilt the VM and its now working Just as well my PC lives in the garage and is cabled through into my seperate mancave as a 980 and a 3080ti running will be toasty. Bring on Winter!

Hey all, Running the following system (and have for the past 6 years with some upgrades along the way) Asus x99-S Xeon E5-2696 v4 (44T/22C) 128GB 3200mhz DDR4 EVGA GTX 980sc 2TB NVME 1TB (x4 256GB SSD Raid 0) 10TB 7200RPM HDD Recently was able to purchase a EVGA 3080ti (at MSRP) during a onsite event at Scan (UK) had to pre book and queue for the whole morning - well worth it. To get back to the point, I have passed the 3080ti through to my gaming VM as the 980 was previously and I have a "mining" vm running nicehash which just used up any spare resources. This was just previously spare CPU cores. I tried passing the previously working 980 now to the mining VM but once the Nvidia drivers install I get a BSOD with VIDEO TDR FAILURE. Any thoughts and ideas why it might not be working. The 3080ti is working fine still but unable to get the 2nd gpu to passthrough to a 2nd vm.

Ok to rule out network adapters etc, I took a different approach. I passed through the x4 SSD Drives through to the Gaming VM on a ESXi NVME Virtual Controller. Striped them using Windows Disk Manager and assigned a Drive "D:\" and got the speeds up to 790mb/sec still short of 1.5gb/sec The NVME drive the Gaming VM runs (c:\) from has throughput of 3.5gb/sec so its not like the throughput cant be achieved within a VM.

Would it not all just be the stock VMware esxi virtual network adapters as they are both just VM's within ESXi? Will I have to look at multipath and create several virtual NICs to improve the performance? Also a correction about it wasn't using Storage Spaces that netted me 1.5Gb/s I was getting mixed up with a different pool. Those speeds were achieved via the motherboard onboard raid controller.

Afternoon all, Making good progress on my home server which is to run several VM's i.e. Gaming PC/VPN Sandbox PC/CCTV/FreeNAS/ etc Today I've completed creating several Pools in FreeNAS. One of the Pools is x4 256GB Samsung SSD's striped for around a 800GB Pool. This pool is then setup for iscsi to my gaming VM. Was going to be used for Steam Games / Applications. The FreeNas and Gaming Machine are both VM's on the same ESXi 6.7 Host. Transfer speeds using DiskMark come back at only 300-350MB/sec? This x4 SSD Striped arrange when previoulsy setup using Windows Storage Spaces was easily 1.5GB/sec. What am I missing? The FreeNAS VM has x4 vCPU's E5-2696 v4 and 32GB RAM 2400mhz DDR4 If I cant improve the performance I'll just revert back to passing the drives through and use Storage Spaces again. I previously had the drives formatted as ReFS and it turns out Oculus store requires a NTFS for some unknown reason. I just also wanted the benefit of ZFS and to learn more about using iscsi

Hmm not quiet iDRAC that I'm used to on my production servers but some out of the box thinking there guys. ooh, just thought about IP KVM (https://www.kvmswitchdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Remote_access_products.html?crtag=IPGoogle&gclid=CjwKCAjw34n5BRA9EiwA2u9k38UuckpNjzipBZh4D22CkU-zDfb_iJZq5RtUqnrIPhI3KY79ZtmObRoCCCcQAvD_BwE) but at over £300 I could swap out the mobo most probably for a SuperMicro with built in LOM no doubt.

Morning/Afternoon all, Currently my PC which is based on a Asus X99-s motherboard platform (e5-2696 v4), been going strong for over 5years. Currently lives in the garage, and all the I/O is trunked through the wall into my mancave. PC's gets to remain super chilled in winter and helps keeps the garage warm and dry, all white keeping my room noise free. However on the odd occasion the PC locks up, it means getting up and going outside to reboot the machine. Is there a way via an add-on to add LOM? I ask because if the garage was a PITA, I'm considering moving the PC to my work (I'm a School IT Manager) so I plan to use the power and cooling from my server room. I believe with the leased line we have I'll be able to use the computer just fine remotely. Steam remote play, RDP sessions, VPN connection etc, however if it crashed or locked up and required a reboot then LOM would be required or it be an 8mile round trip and a faff unlocking and unarming the building each time!. Thanks in advance.

Morning all, Quick query. I've built a Win98 PC for retro gaming and was wondering if there was a safe way of having it connected to the network but without any internet connectivity. Would it just be a case of not adding an IP address in the gateway settings and assigning it a static IP. I dont think my router/switch has VLAN or support for creating them. It would just be easier to transfer files to it rather than having to run back and forth with a usb stick, or to be able to store more ISO's than the drive may be able to hold. As mentioned I dont want internet access on it, just network access, but want the rest of the network and the win98 device all to remain safe. Any thoughts. Thanks in advance.

This is where ideas started getting developed and questions prompted. I played around with the iSCSI on FreeNAS. Would be good to incorporate as the VM OS's would see it as a physical drive so installing and running apps from the storage pool would work well. So OS C:\drive would still be on the high speed NVMe 2TB drive, yet a D:\ (Data drive) could come from a iSCSI rather than just SMB network NAS sort of share. As a side note, I had a problem on my current setup installing Oculus software as it would only install on NTFS and at the time I was running Storage Spaces, which is ReFS. Using FreeNAS and iSCSI it would present to the OS as NTFS yet the back end would have the benefits of ZFS.